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The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It
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“Even though it’s so painful, grief is something we have to go through sooner or later. There’s no way round it, no way to avoid it. That’s something we all learned in the war. You go through it. But if you have a friend or two to walk along that path beside you, it helps you to bear it.”
― The Skylark's Secret
― The Skylark's Secret
“Now, on the eve of my return to prison, I remind myself that each of us has an Adolf Hitler and a Corrie ten Boom within us. We have the capacity to hate and the capacity to love. Which one we reach for—our inner Hitler or inner ten Boom—is up to us.”
― The Choice
― The Choice
“Is this what growing into an adult woman is, having to predict and accordingly arrange for the avoidance of sexual harassment?”
― Queenie
― Queenie
“I think if we keep the dark things shut up inside,’ she goes on, ‘they grow big. Like weeds. They smother all the flowers and block the sunlight.”
― The Glass House
― The Glass House
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Each moment is a choice. No matter how frustrating or boring or constraining or painful or oppressive our experience, we can always choose how we respond. And I finally begin to understand that I, too, have a choice. This realization will change my life.”
― The Choice
― The Choice
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